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Article: Feud Splits Leadership of Israel's Likud; Opposition Party Rift Could Benefit Rabin
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- The Washington Post
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- June 6, 1995
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The Likud, Israel's largest opposition party, began unraveling in
acrimony tonight at what was intended to be the start of a year-long
campaign to unseat Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and reverse his
government's stance in peace talks with Syria and the Palestinians.
Years of personal and ethnic resentment erupted 10 days ago in a
public power struggle between party leader Binyamin Netanyahu and a
man who had sought his job, David Levy, a former foreign minister and
deputy prime minister. Tonight Netanyahu fired Levy's brother as
chairman of the Likud's central committee and rammed through rules
changes that would strip Levy's faction of most of its seats in the
next session of Israel's ...